Carmen Reid

Chick-lit author Carmen Reid was raised on a farm near Montrose, but the self-confessed urbanite escaped to London to study English Literature at University College London. A number of journalism jobs followed, in the local, regional and national press, before she gave up work to have children. She was aged just 28 when she started her first novel, and was published four years later.

Her popular novels, starting with Three in a Bed in 2002, have now been joined by a series of novels for teenagers, which are set in a fictional Scottish boarding school called St Jude’s.

Carmen Reid is married with two children, and lives with her husband in Glasgow.